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Title: Red
Post by: Owen on 11:36:34, 02/11/18
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Post by: April on 12:29:28, 02/11/18
Great shots  O0
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Post by: Hillhiker1 on 13:26:15, 02/11/18
What a cracking photo! O0 I 've never had one stay still for long enough for me to get a shot off.. Let alone get close enough to it.
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Post by: Innominate Man on 14:01:38, 02/11/18
Great photos Owen  O0



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Post by: Dovegirl on 14:02:02, 02/11/18
Great photos    :)
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Post by: Owen on 14:32:21, 02/11/18
What a cracking photo! O0 I 've never had one stay still for long enough for me to get a shot off.. Let alone get close enough to it.


It was taken from a hide where food had been put out to attract wildlife. I used a 70 - 200mm zoom lens with a 2x teleconverter, (effectively making it a 140 - 400mm) on a Canon 5D, not something I regularly carry around whilst walking. Still, the best I've managed so far. 
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Post by: pleb on 15:38:51, 02/11/18
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Post by: sunnydale on 06:58:01, 04/11/18
I think pleb is impressed! :D


Lovely pics Owen 8)
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Post by: Jac on 08:51:02, 04/11/18
Super pics :)
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Post by: richardh1905 on 09:29:45, 04/11/18
Beauty....
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Post by: adalard on 09:42:10, 06/11/18
Fantastic pictures!  O0


I'd love to see a red squirrel in real life.
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Post by: fernman on 10:35:08, 06/11/18
You can see them in captivity in a very large enclosure in the Welsh Mountain Zoo at Colwyn Bay, if you're ever in the area.
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Post by: adalard on 10:47:20, 06/11/18
You can see them in captivity in a very large enclosure in the Welsh Mountain Zoo at Colwyn Bay, if you're ever in the area.


Thanks, Fernman - we do go to North Wales several times a year so I'll make a note of that.  O0
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Post by: fernman on 12:50:00, 06/11/18
Thanks, Fernman - we do go to North Wales several times a year so I'll make a note of that.  O0

They're wild (introduced) on Anglesey - one of my sons saw one in the gardens of Plas Newydd House when he was on holiday last July.
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Post by: andybr on 13:07:02, 06/11/18
A few years ago my wife and I were sat eating lunch by a path in Grizedale forest when a Red Squirrel appeared on a branch in a tree just opposite us. Shortly afterwards a large group of ramblers walked directly underneath it chatting amongst themselves while they went. Not one of them noticed the squirrel which seemed totally unperturbed by their passing. I am sure that it would have made their day if just one of them had taken the time to just look around.
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Post by: sunnydale on 18:37:53, 06/11/18
Fantastic pictures!  O0


I'd love to see a red squirrel in real life.


They are also here...


https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/formby/trails/formby-red-squirrel-walk (https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/formby/trails/formby-red-squirrel-walk)


...and on the Isle of Wight!
I took these a few years ago...


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One ran up my leg and sat on my arm while I fed it some nuts! :D
Title: Re: Red
Post by: fernman on 18:55:45, 06/11/18
A few years ago my wife and I were sat eating lunch by a path in Grizedale forest when a Red Squirrel appeared on a branch in a tree just opposite us. Shortly afterwards a large group of ramblers walked directly underneath it chatting amongst themselves while they went. Not one of them noticed the squirrel which seemed totally unperturbed by their passing. I am sure that it would have made their day if just one of them had taken the time to just look around.

My wife and I once stayed in a small hotel facing one side of the harbour on the Greek island of Antiparos, where every evening we sat on our 1st floor balcony with post-beach and shower / pre-dinner drinks watching numbers of larger-than-average bats swooping around the streetlights below us. The bats were flying only a little way above the heads of all the passers-by, who were always completely oblivious of them. There was only one occasion when a little blonde Scandinavian girl looked up and spotted them, and pointed them out to her mother.
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Post by: gary m on 17:07:30, 07/11/18
Brilliant photos
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Post by: adalard on 11:52:37, 08/11/18
Wow, those pictures are amazing, Sunnydale!  O0


We've been to Formby a couple of times but never seen any unfortunately... Still, it's a nice beach to stroll along too so it wasn't a wasted journey.


Anglesey sounds like a good bet and it's somewhere I'd like to do more walking. Thanks again, Fernman for the tip.  O0